*>± Journal of a trip to Cuttack, [Jan. 



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 Oh would you hear the angels recite the prayers 

 You must pass one night therein. 



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 As the mosque was made in the time of A'bu Nassau Kha'n 

 So its date is " the time of the Nawab A'bu Nassar Kha'n." 



The year of the Hegira 1093 A. D. 1686. 



By this inscription it would appear that the mosque was built in 

 A. D. 1686 by the Nawab Abu Nassar Kha'n and not Muhammad 

 Taki' Khan as stated by Mr. Stirling. 



At a short distance from the mosque is a dargah or shrine of a 

 Mussulman saint who destroyed a famous temple and converted the 

 terrace, on which it stood, into an open mosque and burial-place for 

 himself and family. Beneath the terrace are three idols of enormous 

 dimensions and exquisite sculpture, representing Indrani, Varaha and 

 Kali : the latter figure is the most worthy of notice though a more 

 hideous object could not well be imagined, — it resembles (as it were) a 

 living skeleton of an old fury. Mr. Stirling gives a good account of 

 these fine specimens of ancient Hindu sculpture; it is much to be regret- 

 ted that these idols have so suffered from the mason's chisel, in late years 

 employed by an European officer to detach " relics !" A part of the 

 mund-mdld of Kali and a hand of Indrani have been thus lost. It is 

 also a great pity that these curiosities are not removed to the museum 

 in Calcutta (which could easily be done in the rainy season) and thereby 

 placed out of the reach of such would-be-antiquarian relic hunters. 



The following are the dimensions of the figures. 



Ka'li', base 6 feet 0J inch ; height 9 feet ; thickness at the base 1 foot 

 4 inches. 



Indra'ni', height 8 feet 10 inches; breadth at the base 5 feet 9 

 inches ; thickness ditto 3 feet 1J inches. 



Varaha, height 9 feet 10 inches ; breadth at the base 5 feet 1 1 inches ; 

 thickness ditto 3 feet 6J inches. 



I regretted my inability (for want of time) to make drawings of the 

 three figures. 



Having through the attention and exceeding politeness of the Mun- 

 sif Abdul Ahid (who resides near the mosque) procured guides to shew 

 me all that is to be seen in and near Jajipur, I visited the different 

 temples, none of which are worthy of notice or at all ancient, though 

 they occupy the places of those destroyed by the Muhammadan conquer- 

 ors. About a mile and a half from the mosque behind the town, I was 

 shewn a very elegant pillar of which the accompanying is a sketch ; it is 



